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We would look completely amateurish if we sacked Solskjaer now, and any self respecting manager wouldn't touch us if we did. We made the decision to appoint Solskjaer, now we have to back him and hope his vision for the club is enough to get us out of this mess.
 

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I'm not anti Scottish, I just wanted Moyes out.
This won't happen and nor should it.
We need to give the guy a chance. In saying that, I believe he will be sacked in 2019. This is a massive job and requires a manager with a lot of experience.
The other issue is Woodward. He'll screw up and blame/sack the manager. He did this with LVG and Jose and he will do it with Ole. I have absolutely no doubt about it.
Why?
 

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If you're against anyone, fair enough you have your opinion but don't make stuff up. Moyes had a championship winning squad and we got some shit results and unless mistaken he was fired with 2 games to go. He had 2 transfer windows to improve the squad.
2 games to go is not the same as a full season, Moyes had proved to be a failure thats why he was cut short. The same should happen to Ole.

You don’t need experts to realize that a couple of transfer windows won’t do much for Ole. How with the same players was he able to win at first and then play so shitty? It’s about managment as well, we can agree we don’t have an squad to win the league, but I think we can also agree we have the squad to play way better than this.
 

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Exactly... For god sake. How many people are going to slate Ole without giving him his due shot...
How about waiting two months and see how many players we have moved on and what sort of players are coming in? How about reviewing after the pre-season and seeing how the team functions when he has SIGNIFICANT time to coach HIS ideas into the team and has all HIS players available.

I fully believe that the fast press we did for 10 or so games caught up with our players. At the same time we had a number of players who were intent on leaving, a number intent on walking around the pitch and the injuries caught up with everyone. There are no doubt some toxic elements in the dressing room, and lets face it a lot of the toxicity could be expected - everyone in there feels underpaid when they look across and see Sanchez milking the club dry for no return. There are many things that the club must help Ole with - he can't do it alone.

Give him a chance to be judged on his merits, not the shitshow he inherited.
I agree, they weren't fit enough to deal with it.
 

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We would look completely amateurish if we sacked Solskjaer now, and any self respecting manager wouldn't touch us if we did. We made the decision to appoint Solskjaer, now we have to back him and hope his vision for the club is enough to get us out of this mess.
We'll look even more amateurish when we inevitably sack him after a terrible season next season.
 

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I'm not anti Scottish, I just wanted Moyes out.
I find one of the best ways to judge something about your own club, is to look at how your rivals view them. Look how we view Guardiola, Klopp and Pochettino for example. Compare that to our attitude towards Wenger by the end, we all wanted him to stay.

Here's what Liverpool fans think about Ole as our manager

"Please please don't sack him now. Next season could be on a par to the Moyes season for hilarity."

"I’m just worrying that they will soon realise that they’ve signed the Molde manager and they’ve got the quality that denotes. Give him a couple of years eh?"

"how the feck did he get the job permanently? It's nuts, they just don't learn!!"

"Probably the most short-sighted appointment ever."

"They'll always have Paris. #keepoleatthewheel"

"Glad the season ended when it did or he'd have got himself sacked"

"Surely they go after Poch now and sack this c*nt today"

"I hope they keep him on, they look certain for relegation next season under him."

"Hope they give the clueless c*nt 500 million. Clearly, he's a genius and just needs time and money."

"Appointed the Norwegian David Moyes,lost at home to Cardiff & still celebrating their cross town rivals winning the league."

They want us to keep him because they all know we will go nowhere with him in charge. What is wrong with some of you? This is like how we felt about Liverpool with Dalglish and Hodgson. You are accepting midtable mediocrity.
the Norwegian David Moyes :lol::lol:

In all honesty Moyes is a more proven and probably better manager than Ole
 

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I find one of the best ways to judge something about your own club, is to look at how your rivals view them. Look how we view Guardiola, Klopp and Pochettino for example. Compare that to our attitude towards Wenger by the end, we all wanted him to stay.

Here's what Liverpool fans think about Ole as our manager

"Please please don't sack him now. Next season could be on a par to the Moyes season for hilarity."

"I’m just worrying that they will soon realise that they’ve signed the Molde manager and they’ve got the quality that denotes. Give him a couple of years eh?"

"how the feck did he get the job permanently? It's nuts, they just don't learn!!"

"Probably the most short-sighted appointment ever."

"They'll always have Paris. #keepoleatthewheel"

"Glad the season ended when it did or he'd have got himself sacked"

"Surely they go after Poch now and sack this c*nt today"

"I hope they keep him on, they look certain for relegation next season under him."

"Hope they give the clueless c*nt 500 million. Clearly, he's a genius and just needs time and money."

"Appointed the Norwegian David Moyes,lost at home to Cardiff & still celebrating their cross town rivals winning the league."

They want us to keep him because they all know we will go nowhere with him in charge. What is wrong with some of you? This is like how we felt about Liverpool with Dalglish and Hodgson. You are accepting midtable mediocrity.
I didn’t realise all those fans were able to see into the future? Some power that.
 

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You keep using the term relegation form as if we were in serious danger of being relegated. There's no need for the dramatics, we've been poor and some of the players need to have a long hard look at themselves as to why they got outfought by teams who wanted it more than they did.
If you want to hold the players responsible for this poor form, surely they deserve credit for that 3rd place in that useless table you keep posting?
 

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The problem is (and i'm not even exaggerating in the slightest) that the majority have been saying this for about 5 years now and we keep sticking with them. They will be here next year, we'll have the same complaints and arguments about them next season. It's genuinely depressing.

They're a big part of the problem if we want or expect to see leadership from an experienced core in the dressing room because they aren't from a successful culture.
Oh i agree 100%. I've been saying it myself for this long! Absolute joke that these lot continue to stick around. And Jones gets a contract extension, too. I mean, who's making that fecking decision? Was that Ole? Someone else at the club? Ed?

No idea, but it's a joke. They're simply not good enough and it's genuinely worrying that nobody at the club can see it.
 

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I find one of the best ways to judge something about your own club, is to look at how your rivals view them. Look how we view Guardiola, Klopp and Pochettino for example. Compare that to our attitude towards Wenger by the end, we all wanted him to stay.

Here's what Liverpool fans think about Ole as our manager

"Please please don't sack him now. Next season could be on a par to the Moyes season for hilarity."

"I’m just worrying that they will soon realise that they’ve signed the Molde manager and they’ve got the quality that denotes. Give him a couple of years eh?"

"how the feck did he get the job permanently? It's nuts, they just don't learn!!"

"Probably the most short-sighted appointment ever."

"They'll always have Paris. #keepoleatthewheel"

"Glad the season ended when it did or he'd have got himself sacked"

"Surely they go after Poch now and sack this c*nt today"

"I hope they keep him on, they look certain for relegation next season under him."

"Hope they give the clueless c*nt 500 million. Clearly, he's a genius and just needs time and money."

"Appointed the Norwegian David Moyes,lost at home to Cardiff & still celebrating their cross town rivals winning the league."

They want us to keep him because they all know we will go nowhere with him in charge. What is wrong with some of you? This is like how we felt about Liverpool with Dalglish and Hodgson. You are accepting midtable mediocrity.
This is actually a terrible way to look at things. Plenty of our fans thought Brendan Rodgers was a great manager after 13/14, and also thought Klopp was a dud who couldn't build a defence after his first one. All those quotes tell you is that we're in dire form, something we don't need RAWK to figure out for us, and something we were in before Solskjaer even got here.
 

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Woodward and co botched it horribly.

Our next season could be worse than the current one/Moyes one.

I really really hope Ole proves me wrong, but I can't shake the feeling that we'll have a terrible window and we'll continue this awful run of form a bit into next season.
 

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Why is it always players OR the manager? Why can't it be both? We surely need to get rid of some deadwood and sign better ones. But it's also painfully obvious Ole is out of his depth. I just hope that when he eventually gets sacked mid of next season, he will take Ed down with him and put immense pressure on the board. That's the most we can hope from next season I am afraid.
It is both no doubt. I guess some people think the players can improve under a better manager. Other that the manager can improve with better players. I say both is possible.

Ideally we would bring in a better manager that could help us attract better players. Also get better owners and a better CEO than Woodward so we can spend much better in the market.

Without changing the owners or the owners start wanting to win things as first priority then I think it will be hard for us to really get out of the decline we are in.
 

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Woodward and co botched it horribly.

Our next season could be worse than the current one/Moyes one.

I really really hope Ole proves me wrong, but I can't shake the feeling that we'll have a terrible window and we'll continue this awful run of form a bit into next season.
I’m also feeling this way.
 

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2 games to go is not the same as a full season, Moyes had proved to be a failure thats why he was cut short. The same should happen to Ole.

You don’t need experts to realize that a couple of transfer windows won’t do much for Ole. How with the same players was he able to win at first and then play so shitty? It’s about managment as well, we can agree we don’t have an squad to win the league, but I think we can also agree we have the squad to play way better than this.
So a full season with a pre season/2 transfer windows. Those 2 games don't make a difference as he had ample time to prepare during the pre season and had 2 transfer windows to strengthen his team, thats a full season regardless if he failed or just got sacked for being a moron.

To win with them shows more or loosing with them show more?
 

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Would you rather trust Zidane in the summer transfer window or Solari?
The point is i'm not sure they've fixed anything yet. Real without Ronaldo (and with others ageing) aren't the same, regardless who is manager.

I'm not sure the manager has all the power in transfers at Real. I would say i've got some faith in Ole and Phelan to recruit what this squad needs as long as they are backed.
 

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I think the incompetence of the decision makers at United has been truly exposed post Jose. It would be even harder to attract top managers now, given the lack of footballing vision and squad quality. And that is before you consider that the man in charge allegedly called us 'an adult Disneyland' while pitching us to Klopp.

I don't think we can get Poch the way things are. I don't think managers like who can actually rebuild our side will take up the responsibility unless the structure or the squad is fixed to an extent.

And therefore, despite the bipolar-esque extremes we've seen from Ole's side since he took over, I think he should be backed because he seems to have a good idea of who should stay and who definitely shouldn't. Let him take the first step of stopping the rot. And back him through it.
 

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I'm not anti Scottish, I just wanted Moyes out.

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This won't happen and nor should it.
We need to give the guy a chance. In saying that, I believe he will be sacked in 2019. This is a massive job and requires a manager with a lot of experience.
The other issue is Woodward. He'll screw up and blame/sack the manager. He did this with LVG and Jose and he will do it with Ole. I have absolutely no doubt about it.
Why exactly?
 

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Guys, there is no chance in hell he's as bad as moyes.

All you need to do is to go onto Google images and type in Steve round and you will remember everything.
 

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People hate Conte for some reason but he has experience at rebuilding. Juve didn’t win the league for years and looked clueless before he arrived there. Obviously we need a DOF.

I don’t get why we didn’t stick with our original plan after sacking Mourinho. Get a DOF before the next manager. Woodward the clown has made a mess of it again.
He has HORRIBLY failed at his job after sacking Jose.

If our owners cared about football success, they would have demoted/sacked him too after how he handled this situation.
 

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He has such a tough job, I don't think he's capable of getting it right

Many of these players will still be here next season. Some people are clinging on to this being fitness related. I hope they're right. He hasn't shown enough for me to halt this losing run or have any semblance of control.

I expected to see "out of his depth" comments about Christmas next season. I really didn't see this bad run continuing and so we're seeing them already.

I'm willing to see what happens. It's going to be doubly hard attracting players. This run from the outside looks very bad to future prospects.
 

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That's clear.

And fair. The only reason the current run is not a sacking offense is that it's not his team. If it were, the likely conclusion would've been that the manager has lost it, or that the players have stopped playing for him, or a combination.

What truly baffles me, though, is that so many on here have just decided to ignore the factual context and jump to the conclusion that what we've seen in the run-in is the real Ole. Never mind that he's had no window, never mind what he's said himself about fitness and his preferred system. Just ignore all that and treat what this particular group of players, in these particular circumstances, end up producing in terms of performances as a fair test of his managerial ability. It's unreasonable, to put it diplomatically.
Why does he get credit for the winning run?
 

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It wasnt Ole that made the same players suck under Moyes, LVG and The Toxic One.

We have tried changing manager. It's time to purge the playing staff
People keep mentioning this.

There's only De Gea and Valencia(Jones, Smalling and Jones too) who played under Moyes.

It's not the same players.

We're on our worst run of form since the 60's or whatever it is.

If we need 11 world class players with Ole under the helm to beat Huddersfield and Cardiff, then it's hopeless even employing him.
 
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I think we let every former United player who wants to, have a crack at managing the side for a month. Put all the names into a hat and at the beginning of each month, pull a name out and let them have at it.

It couldn't be any worse than what's happening at the moment, we would get a new manager bounce every four weeks and eventually, we're going to get to watch Roy Keane get his hands on some of these players.

Everyone's a winner!
 

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I don't know about that.
Real Madrid would have sacked him by now.

We'll stick with him and likely experience another poor season. Pressure will mount and once top 4 becomes unattainable, Woodward will pull the plug or Ole will step down.

And we'd have lost yet another season.
 

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The guy almost everyone wants was allowed to get rid of the deadwood and mercenaries at Spurs when he took over them, and United 'fans' admire him for that yet they cant afford to give the same luxury to Ole when many people know there are many players in the sqaud that need to be got rid of, asap.

Our fanbase are bizarre sometimes...
 

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We end up with a smaller gap because other top teams where shit as well, spurs have not won a game in god knows how many matches and Arsenal and Chelsea cant get a point as visitors.

Just because we were “lucky” enough to have the other teams also in a shit form does not make a case for Ole, and we are lucky the seasons over, if we completed the current season until december when Ole was appointed we would probably be outside top 8.
Well people must have got very short memory. He did win alot of games and was on amazing run from late Dec to early March, but then he did also loss alot of games in last 2 months. At the end, I don't think anyone would have expect him doing better job before he took over in Dec, but again, of course no one would expect him to do any worst after his appointment to full time manager back in March. What I am saying is, its not fair to judge him base on this half season alone, there are highs and lows, point is the mess is already there before he took over, there's nothing else he could do.
 

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I think calling for him to be sacked for not creating a cohesive style of play with this group of players in 5 months is a bit ridiculous to be honest. How can that be done when there's zero cohesion to the squad itself? It's a mish-mash of 4 different managers' squads, who all had different ideas of how they wanted to play. I think Pep would even struggle to get them playing effectively as a unit. Especially when the only players with any real quality can't even be arsed trying.

And if we did sack him, what manager in their right mind would want to come in and replace him, knowing that not getting anything out of this shitshow will get you kicked out the door?
 

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So a full season with a pre season/2 transfer windows. Those 2 games don't make a difference as he had ample time to prepare during the pre season and had 2 transfer windows to strengthen his team, thats a full season regardless if he failed or just got sacked for being a moron.

To win with them shows more or loosing with them show more?
Appart from the results it’s the way we are playing, are you seriously confident that with time and a couple of signings this will get better?

We have no indication that this will get better and still Ole’s attitude has changed, at the beginning he was ruthless saying things like “the survival of the fittest” “I will be successful here and not all the players will be here to witness it” and now it has changed to “we have to be where we are at the moment” “we are to far from the top 2” “we played well but it wasnt good enough”.

He has realized he is out of his depth so now he is lowering his expectations so he can keep the jon longer. It’s clear as watter, as time goes by he seems weaker and weaker.
 

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For real? cant be true
These are his actual words on Norwegian television a couple of years ago:

Svendsen konfronterte Solskjær med at man ikke bytter lag.

– Jeg har dessverre skifta altså. Sånn er jeg. Når du først har blitt bitt av United-basillen. Du kan gjerne kutte meg opp, og da blør jeg rødt for Manchester United.

– Jeg meldte meg aldri ut av Liverpool-supporterklubb, så jeg tror faktisk jeg var medlem da jeg spilte for Manchester United mot Liverpool. Det tror jeg ikke det er så veldig mange som kan skryte av.
Just put that into Google Translate. Essentially he confirms that:

1. He ”switched teams” from Liverpool to United when he started playing for us.

2. He was still a member of the Liverpool fan club when he was a player for us.
 

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Well he did have to cancel his membership in a Liverpool fan club when signed for us as a player. That’s right. Solskjaer was/is such a dedicated Liverpool fan he paid to be a member of a Norwegian Liverpool fan club.

https://www.liverpool.no/nyheter/20...i-supporterklubben-er-mourinhos-etterfoelger/
I’m not clicking the link but please have we really become so pathetic already? Club legend, winner of the treble and we are coming out with this crap? No matter who or what he is- back the manager, support him and give him all we’ve got. We’ve had the experienced ones, the famous ones and the past it ones but at least this ones knows what it’s all about and has earned fan respect if nothing else. Let’s get behind him cos undermining him is as much as a problem as Woodward and all the other rubbish going on at board level
 

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He gets the all credit for the winning run momentum and a contract, but its all the players fault now cant even beat fecking Cardiff at home.
Any other profession and he'd be shown the door. Any non-former United player would also be sacked tomorrow. We're incompetent so you'd expect a new 6 year deal tomorrow.
 
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